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A St. Patrick’s Day DUI checkpoint was conducted Wednesday night along South Main Street in Salinas.

During the checkpoint 1,234 vehicles passed through and approximately 700 vehicles were contacted by officers, according to the Salinas Police Department.

There were nine unlicensed drivers citations and two suspended license citations, police said.

There were also three warrant arrests, one drug arrest, one D.U.I. arrest and one possession of a stolen vehicle arrest, police said.

The stolen vehicle arrest occurred when Ruben Malabox, 51, a parolee, drove through the checkpoint and when contacted, had no driver’s license, police said.

A records check showed the vehicle had been stolen out of San Francisco, police said.

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The Salinas Police Department will conduct a CA DUI and drivers license checkpoint from 5 to 10:30 p.m. today at an undisclosed location.

Funding for the CA DUI checkpoint is provided by a grant issued by the state Office of Traffic Safety.

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One driver was ticketed for driving under the influence at DUI checklanes in operation following the Smoky Hill River Festival’s Festival Jam Thursday night, and five additional CA DUI arrests were made by patrol officers.
Between 10 and 11:30 p.m. Thursday at Front and Crawford streets, 93 cars entered the checklanes and several drivers were evaluated, said Capt. Mike Sweeney of the Salina Police Department. No one was cited for DUI, but two drivers were ticketed for having open containers of alcohol in their vehicles.
Between midnight and 2:10 a.m. Friday, 90 cars entered a checklane at Ninth and Crawford streets, Sweeney said. One DUI arrest was made, and two people were cited for open container.
Sweeney said police received few reports of problems at the jam in Oakdale Park. He said one 53-year-old woman was arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer and trespass after she hit a policeman on the chest and refused to leave the festival grounds when asked.

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For the second Memorial Day weekend in a row, drunken-driving arrests in Monterey County more than doubled, officials said Tuesday.

During the Avoid The 18 crackdown, police officers, sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol officers arrested 49 motorists on suspicion of driving under the influence, up from last year’s 21. In 2007, officers made 10 DUI arrests over the holiday weekend.

The enforcement sweep, which included a DUI checkpoint in Salinas and increased patrols around the county, started Friday and ended Monday night.

Lynn says additional state grant money from the California Office of Traffic Safety allowed law enforcement agencies to increase patrol hours, and thus boost arrest numbers.

“With more units out there, we’re able to catch more,” he said.

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Salinas police plan a sobriety checkpoint and saturation patrols, said Sgt. John Lynn of the Salinas Police Dept., coordinator of Avoid the 18, the cooperative law enforcement DUI crackdown.

Marina Lieutenant Thomas Melendy is sending out a DUI unit on Tuesday. “We will also be directing the beat units to make frequent stops at local bars to discourage heavy drinking,” he said.

The California Office of Traffic Safety funds Avoid the 18 and 40 other similar campaigns up and down the state through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

“Law enforcement is working hard in reversing the trend of increased alcohol-related traffic fatalities,” said OTS Director Christopher J. Murphy. “Through aggressive DUI enforcement and greater vigilance on the part of the public by calling 9-1-1 when they see a drunk driver, we’re getting these dangerous drivers off the road.”

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California Highway Patrolmen arrested a 21-year-old Mario Navarro-Ramirez  for driving under the influence Saturday in Salinas.

The sheriff’s office was advised of an injury accident on Castroville Boulevard near Manzanita Regional Park, located at 17100 Castroville Blvd., shortly before 7 p.m.

A sheriff’s helicopter arrived near the park and saw that a gray pickup truck was heading west on Castroville Boulevard.

Police said Ramirez went less than a mile before stopping and being booked for a California DUI.

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